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Muharram and Shia rituals

Muharram and Shia rituals

Islamic Year ,Four sacred months and Muharram

About Islamic Year and Four sacred Month and later Moharram(Ashura')

Volume 4, Book 54, Number 419 :

Narrated by Abu Bakra

The Prophet said. "(The division of time
has turned to its original form which was current when Allah created
the Heavens and the Earths. The year is of twelve months, out of which
four months are sacred: Three are in succession Dhul-Qa' da, Dhul-Hijja
and Muharram, and (the fourth is) Rajab of (the tribe of) Mudar which
comes between Jumadi-ath-Thaniyah and Sha ban."

From last sermon of Muhammad PBUH: With
Allah the months are twelve in number. Four of them are holy, they are
successive, except one occurs singly between the months of Jumada and
Shaban [meaning Rajab].

From Holy Quran:

Indeed, the number of
months with Allah is twelve [lunar] months in the register of
Allah [from] the day He created the heavens and the earth; of
these, four are sacred. That is the correct religion, so do
not wrong yourselves during them. And fight against the
disbelievers collectively as they fight against you collectively.
And know that Allah is with the righteous [who fear Him].http://quran.com/9/36Ashura' commemorates the day that Allah saved the Children of Israel from PharaohFasting
on Muharram 10, known as the Day of 'Ashura', expiates for the sins of
the past year. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
arrived in Madinah he found that the Jews there fasted on Muharram 10
and asked them the reason for their fasting on this day. They said,"
This is a blessed day. On this day Allah saved the Children of Israel
from their enemy (in Egypt) and so Prophet Musa [Moses] fasted on this
day giving thanks to Allah.

The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said,"We are closer to Musa than you are."

He
fasted on that day and commanded Muslims to fast on this day.
(Al-Bukhari) The following year, Allah commanded the Muslims to fast the
month of Ramadan, and the fasting of 'Ashura' became optional. It is
also reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
intended to fast on the ninth and tenth. Ibn 'Abbas reported: The
Messenger of Allah fasted on the day of 'Ashura' and ordered the people
to fast on it. The people said, "O Messenger of Allah, it is a day that
the Jews and Christians honor." The Prophet said, "When the following
year comes, Allah willing, we shall fast on the ninth." The death of the
Prophet came before the following year. (Muslim and Abu Dawud)

Source:

There is no doubt in the minds of the rightly guided Ahlus Sunnah in
regards to the great qualities of Hussain (رضّى الله عنه). We ask Allah
Almighty to accept him into the Highest Ranks of Paradise with the
Prophets and Messengers of Allah Anyone who denies the greatness of
Hussain (رضّى الله عنه) is deviant and has gone away from the accepted creed of the Ahlus Sunnah. There
is not a single reputable scholar of the Ahlus Sunnah that has ever
said otherwise.Having said this, true Muslims must not take part in the
Shia rituals on the day of Ashura. Although we recognize that the
death of Hussain (رضّى الله عنه) was a tragic event, it is a Bidah (evil
innovation to Islam) to commemorate his death because the Prophet (صلّى
الله عليه وآله وسلّم) did not do so. How could the Prophet (صلّى الله
عليه وآله وسلّم) comemmorate his death when the Prophet (صلّى الله
عليه وآله وسلّم) himself died many years before the death of Hussain
(رضّى الله عنه)?Additionally–and this point cannot be
stressed enough–there were many Sahabah who were killed in the Path of
Allah, but the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) never mourned their
deaths in the manner in which the Shia mourn Hussain (رضّى الله عنه).
The Prophet lost his own dear uncle, his own wife, and many of his
dearest companions, but do we see that the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله
وسلّم) ever resorted to self-flagellation or excessive mourning? The
Shia can never provide such an example from the life of the Prophet
(صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم), probably not even from Shia sources.
Therefore, we find that it is not part of the Sunnah to mourn in such an
uncivilized manner and we shall never take part in it because of this.﻿

Neither the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) nor his
rightly-guided successors (the khulafa’ al-raashidoon) did any of these
things on the day of ‘Aashooraa’, they neither made it a day of mourning
nor a day of celebration.
all of this is reprehensible bid’ah and is
wrong. None of it has anything to do with the Sunnah of the Messenger
of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or the way of the
Khulafa’ al-Raashidoon. It was not approved of by any of the imaams of
the Muslims, not Maalik, not al-Thawri, not al-Layth ibn Sa’d, not Abu
Haneefah, not al-Oozaa’i, not al-Shaafa’i, not Ahmad ibn Hanbal, not
Ishaaq ibn Raahwayh, not any of the imaams and scholars of the Muslims.
The
religion of Islam is based on two principles: that we should worship
nothing besides Allaah Alone, and that we should worship Him in the
manner that He has prescribed, not by means of bid’ah or reprehensible
innovations﻿
There have been many other great heroes of Islam who have been killed in
the Path of Allah, and we do not find the Ahlus Sunnah comemmorating
any of these days. The Ahlus Sunnah does not comemmorate the martyrdom
of Umar (رضّى الله عنه), Uthman (رضّى الله عنه), or Ali (رضّى الله عنه).
The reason is that we find all this to be Bidah, and forms of
exaggeration like the Christians who comemmorate the death of Isa (عليه
السلام).
We find it interesting that the Shia do not celebrate the
death of Ali (رضّى الله عنه) or any of their other heroes. Ali (رضّى
الله عنه) was stabbed to death, and he suffered a horrendous death. So
what is the reason that the Shia make such a big deal about the death of
Hussain (رضّى الله عنه) but not of Ali (رضّى الله عنه)? Ali (رضّى الله
عنه) is in fact considered superior to Hussain (رضّى الله عنه) by the
Shia. So why the death of Hussain (رضّى الله عنه) and not of Ali (رضّى
الله عنه)? The reason is obvious: the Shia celebrate Ashura to spite the
Sunni Muslims.
The Shia attest that it was Yezid who killed Hussain
(رضّى الله عنه), and they say that Yezid was a Sunni. This is the reason
that they mourn Hussain (رضّى الله عنه), because they blame the Ahlus
Sunnah for this tragic event. The Shia mourning on Ashura is therefore a
spiteful fist in the air against the Sunni majority. The Shia leave no
stone unturned in their defamation of the Ahlus Sunnah, and thus they
want everyone to remember that it was “Yezid the big bad Sunni” who was
responsible﻿